And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.

If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable.

I wondered what things what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable.

We're living tragedies, just passing time 'til our funerals.

How many beers do y'all think it takes before one internationally scientist turns to another and says, 'Dude, bet you twenty bucks I can levitate a frog with a magnet?' ' Sam drawled.

Fine! You guys can all be beautiful snowflakes! I'm gonna go over here and be an awkward snowflake!

And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself.

Still here, Faulkner?" Luke sneered."Still doing that terrible impression of Draco Malfoy?" I asked.

Maybe I’d already guessed that the physics of us didn’t defy any laws of gravity, and with her, there was always an equal and opposite reaction.

I don’t want to talk as much, ’ she said, denting her chin thoughtfully with her forefinger. ‘It’s nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one’s heart, like treasures.

Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.

How bittersweet it is, on winter's night, To listen, by the sputtering, smoking fire, As distant memories, through the fog-dimmed light, Rise, to the muffled chime of churchbell choir.

Follow your own star!

If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

In Los Angeles, sometimes it's hard to find a magazine stand, let alone one that has the magazine that you want. So I find that the longer I live in L.A., the more digitally I consume.

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?